Designing for Seniors

April 2016

IBI THiNK: Thought Leadership Evidence Based Design

Initially inspired by the desire to create patient-centred

environments, IBI THiNK now focuses on all sectors,

including places for working and learning.

The work of IBI THiNK highlights the important link

between research and practice. Its activities encompass:

• In-house research to support design projects

• Commissioned research

• Technical research with industry partners

• Guidance, compliance and advice documentation

• Product and furniture design

• Clinical planning innovation

IBI THiNK: Design Research & Innovation Evidence Based Design

• New Design Tools

• THiNK Tanks + Brainstorming events

• Expert Working Group activity

• Pre and Post Occupancy Evaluation

• Space Syntax Techniques

• Inter-office Design Charettes

• Inter-regional Challenges

• Manufacturer Product

Development

Designing for the Senses: The Senses Evidence Based Design

Sight

• Light

• Colour

• Vista

Hearing

• Sounds

• Noise

Touch

• Texture

• Temperature

Smell

• Odour

• Aroma

Taste

• Sweet

• Sour

Sight

• Light

• Colour

• Vista

Hearing

• Sounds

• Noise

Touch

• Texture

• Temperature

Smell

• Odour

• Aroma

Taste

• Sweet

• Sour

Designing for the Senses: The Senses Evidence Based Design

Designing for the Senses: Body Systems

Physiological

Autonomic System

Breathing, circulation, digestion

Motor System

Muscle tone, posture,

movement patterns

State System

Sleep, awake, weak,

restless, anxious

Evidence Based Design

Designing for the Senses: Sensory Spreadsheet Evidence Based Design

Designing for the Senses: Sensory Plans Evidence Based Design

Designing for the Senses: The Aging Body Evidence Based Design

Designing for the Senses: Sensory Degeneration Evidence Based Design

IBI THiNK: Getting Design Right at all Levels

Macro Meso Micro

Masterplanning Detail

Evidence Based Design

IBI THiNK: Salutenogenic House of the Future Evidence Based Design

IBI THiNK: Design Guidance Evidence Based Design

IBI THiNK: Design Guidance Evidence Based Design

Projects

Huddersfield Care Home,

Kirklees Council

£2.5M

40 Bedrooms, Elder Care

and Dementia Care.

Plus 15 +55s Houses:

offset costs to Council

Red House, Barham,

Norwich

£13M

Care Principles Ltd

94 Bedrooms

Supported Living

Low & Medium Secure

Areas

Chester

75 Bedrooms

Part of £25.0M mixed use

project

The Limes, Portsmouth

£7.0M

36 Bedrooms

Dementia Care

Parkland Setting

Neston, Cheshire

£8.5M

Conversion of Listed Police

Station

75 Apartments

Wolstanton,

Staffordshire

£8.5M

Brownfield

Redevelopment

75 Apartments

Selected Experience: Elder Care Projects

Treborth Estate, Chester

Lovell Partnership

20 Bungalow Extra Care

scheme.

Part of larger 190 unit

mixed tenure scheme.

School Brow Romiley

Keyworker Homes Ltd.

58 Extra Care units.

Guernsey Housing

Association

188 Extra Care beds over

two sites.

Llanfairfechan Extra

Care

6 units bespoke designed

for particular service user

needs.

Blackburn, Places for

People

12 Extra Care units as part

of larger Infirmary

Waterside HMR 131 mixed

tenure regeneration

scheme.

Harwood Bar, Places

for People Group

44 Extra Care

Apartments

Selected Experience: Elder Care Projects

Selected Experience: Working with Charities Projects

Carmarthenshire

Children’s Centre

£2.5M

Architecture, Interiors,

Landscape

Sobell Hospice, Oxford

£3.3M

Architecture and

Interior Design

Quiet seating nodes in

the garden. Oxford

Presentation Trust

Award.

St Francis Hospice,

Havering, Essex

£600K

Interior Design

Refurbishment scheme to

improve level of care.

Working with the Kings

Fund charity.

MacMillan Cancer

Centre, Harrogate

£4.7M

Architecture, Interiors,

Landscaping

19th project we have

undertaken for this charity

client.

Kirkwood Hospice

£3M 16 beds

Architecture and

Interior Design

“The love and care that

has gone into the project

is to be seen in

everything.”

YMCA, Cardiff

Architecture

Study for new community

centre.

Key Features:

36 bedrooms

2 bed clusters

1 cluster for service users

with dementia

Provision for those with

challenging behaviours

Central therapy facilities

Staff facilities

Entrance Area

Integrated art

The Limes, Portsmouth Projects

Key Features:

36 bedrooms

2 bed clusters

1 cluster for service users

with dementia

Provision for those with

challenging behaviours

Central therapy facilities

Staff facilities

Entrance Area

Integrated art

The Limes, Portsmouth Projects

‘People from around the country will come

to see it as an example of how you can

accommodate people with difficulties in life

and people getting old.

The architecture is very well thought through

to helping those with dementia. The place is

full of light, which stops them feeling

claustrophobic. There are lots of things to

do. They’re not just locked in a room in front

of a telly and forgotten about which is

shameful, but still happens all over the

country.

It is absolutely stunning – Portsmouth

should be incredibly proud to have an

initiative like this.’

Sheila Hancock, Actress

Llanfairfechan, Extra Care Homes

Step Down Extra Care Homes

A mix of 3, 2 and single

bedroom accommodation.

Specific provision of extra care

housing for service users as

‘step down’ and rehabilitation

from a low secure unit.

A short programme to access

Social Services funding led to

these being designed utilising

volumetric and offsite

manufacture of pods.

Achieved Code Level 4 to meet

funding criteria and provide a

sustainable solution minimising

revenue costs.

Projects

Guernsey, Extra Care Homes

Guernsey Housing Association

and Health & Social Services

Department.

188 beds, 2 sites

Longue Rue Site

100 bed Extra Care Facility

37 no. 2 bed units

26 no. single bed units

Maison Maraitaine

88 bed Extra Care Facility

26 no. 2 bed units

36 no. single bed units

Projects

Current Work: Redruth, Cornwall £1.0M / 30 Bed Projects

Dementia Friendly Improvements

Interventions, wander loops,

memory boxes, unique and

identifiable front doors, improved

dexterity sanitary ware and

increased daylight

Observation and Staffing

Improvements

Improved observation, clear sight

lines, gender separation and

accommodation flex.

Access and Connection with

External Space

Creation of external landscape

space co-located as extensions of

the gender specific lounge spaces.

Internal Wander loops are

continued and extended in to the

external environment.

Current Work: Bodmin, Cornwall £1.2M / 24 Bed

Dementia Friendly Improvements

Interventions, wander loops, memory

boxes, unique and identifiable front

doors, improved dexterity sanitary

ware and increased daylight

Observation and Staffing

Improvements

Improved observation, clear sight

lines, gender separation and

accommodation flex.

Access and Connection with

External Space

Creation of external landscape space

co-located as extensions of the

gender specific lounge spaces.

Internal Wander loops are continued

and extended in to the external

environment.

Projects

Designing for the Senses: Sense of Wellbeing

Economist Dec 18th 2010

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